{"id":14938,"date":"2010-07-01T17:25:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T21:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewm.com\/internalblog\/?p=14938"},"modified":"2010-07-01T17:25:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T21:25:49","slug":"504-loans-the-good-bad-and-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=14938","title":{"rendered":"504 Loans &#8211; The Good, Bad and Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the weak economy deterring many small businesses from expanding, demand for SBA loans plummeted: Last year, the SBA approved $3.8 billion in 504 loans, down 28% from 2008 and 40% from 2007. Now, hoping to spur expansion among small companies, the SBA is offering inducements like lower rates and no-fee deals. Demand is picking up again for these 10%-down, fixed rate loans, but if you&#8217;re thinking of pursuing a 504 loan, though, there are some strategies and caveats to keep in mind.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/narlservredirect.nsf\/pages\/NT0000172A?OpenDocument&amp;WT.mc_id=LS063010&amp;CAT=Comm\"> Read more&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the weak economy deterring many small businesses from expanding, demand for SBA loans plummeted: Last year, the SBA approved $3.8 billion in 504 loans, down 28% from 2008 and 40% from 2007. Now, hoping to spur expansion among small companies, the SBA is offering inducements like lower rates and no-fee deals. Demand is picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[31,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}